Watch junior doctors' recruitment RAP as they try and lure new medics to Scots town

DOCTOR Mark Goddard has 99 Problems but Dumfries ain't one.. so it makes perfect sense to work there as a junior doctor.

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A SPOOF music video to encourage doctors to work in Dumfries has become an internet hit.

Dr Mark Goddard’s “99 Problems (but Dumfries ain’t one!)” – which sends up Jay-Z’s original hit – has been viewed thousands of times on YouTube.

Mark, 25, who is joined by fellow medics on the film, said: “Dumfries and Galloway was a fantastic place to begin our careers as doctors and we just wanted to celebrate that and give people a little flavour of what life is like down here.”

In May it was revealed the region could face a shortage of GPs unless 25 new recruits are hired before the end of 2016.

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DGRI’s education centre officer Anne-Marie Coxon said: “Our problem is geography. Dumfries is a fantastic place to train and work.

“Some people don’t want to come here because they think it’s a million miles away from Glasgow or Edinburgh.

“That’s simply not the case. Hopefully those people will see this video and think ‘I don’t care how far away it is, these guys look like they’re having fun’.”